It took “a while” but, without any fanfare, sometime in May of 2022, Microsoft released a version of the Windows Driver Kit (WDK) that supports Visual Studio (VS) 2022. This version is referred to as the Windows 11 Version 22H2 WDK. This new version of the WDK is only support on VS 2022. It cannot […]
Visual Studio 2017 Released — Driver Devs: Stay Where You Are
Good News: Today Visual Studio (VS) 2017 was released to General Availability. You can download it here. Bad News: The Windows Driver Kit (WDK) doesn’t support this latest version of Visual Studio, so us driver devs are stuck on VS 2015 for our driver development. There’s really not that much to say about it, except […]
Newbie Corner: There’s a type for that! The Unexpected World of Windows Kernel Types
This post is the first in a series from our newest Software Design Engineer, Chris Barr. Chris has lots of cool low level programming experience (including UEFI), though not necessarily on Windows. We’ve asked him to post about anything that comes across as interesting, unexpected, fun, or strange while learning Windows kernel mode development. It’s […]
Updates to Driver Testing — Not Just for Certification
Long ago, Microsoft created the Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL, pronounced “wickle”) program. The goal of this program was to certify that a particular device and its associated driver met a set of WHQL defined requirements. The requirements could include anything from how the driver was developed (e.g. which driver model it used) to whether […]
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